[Pkg-pciutils-discuss] Re: Reversion of lspci -m changes

[Henning Glawe]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 08:09:30AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I have to say I really, really wish remco hadn't accepted this patch.
> Changing the *machine readable* option of lspci makes Debian
> incompatible with every other distro.  This one is definitely being
> reverted before we get to 2.2.1-1.  Sorry, no discussion on this one.
> It actually makes it *IMPOSSIBLE* to machine-parse, unless you use -n as
> well.  Look:
> 
> $ lspci -m
> 00:00.0 Host bridge Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller 03 00 Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 08b0
> 
> I mean, wtf?
> 

well, actually I developed this only with -n in mind. I don't mind if it is
removed now, as I thought of that change mainly as a starting point for
further discussions and was a bit surprised it was applied as-is so quickly. 


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henning